Samsung patents fridge door with angled lever for easier opening
Samsung has filed a patent for a refrigerator featuring a two-part door system with an inner and an outer door. The design includes a specific mechanical device at the bottom of the outer door that uses a shaft and an angled lever to help open the door.
In the filing’s own words
Provided is a refrigerator including a main body in which a storage compartment is formed; an inner door, rotatable at a front of the main body, including an opening; an outer door, rotatable at a front of the inner door to open and close the opening; and a door opening device at a lower end portion of the outer door and configured to open the outer door, wherein the door opening device includes: a shaft coupleable to the outer door; and a lever, rotatable with the shaft as a rotation axis, accessible from an outside of the outer door, wherein the lever includes an inclined portion, on a rear surface of the lever, such that a lower end thereof is positioned forward of an upper end thereof.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A refrigerator comprising: a main body in which a storage compartment is formed; an inner door, rotatable at a front of the main body, including an opening; an outer door, rotatable at a front of the inner door to open and close the opening; and a door opening device at a lower end portion of the outer door and configured to open the outer door, wherein the door opening device includes: a shaft coupleable to the outer door; and a lever, rotatable with the shaft as a rotation axis, accessible from an outside of the outer door, wherein the lever includes an inclined portion, on a rear surface of the lever, the inclined portion inclined such that a lower end thereof is positioned forward of an upper end thereof.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- REFRIGERATOR
- Publication number
- US20260328469A1
- Application number
- 19576896
- Filed
- Mar 24, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
F25D 23/025 Mechanical engineeringF25D 23/028 Mechanical engineeringF25D 29/005 Mechanical engineeringF25D 2323/023 Mechanical engineeringF25D 2323/024 Mechanical engineeringMore from Samsung in Other
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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